ENC 1101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Center for Written and Oral Communication
• Course: ENC 1101
• Professor: Tim Robinson

Document Summary

What is an evaluation argument: when you evaluate, make a value judgement abt something or someone, ex. In which you demonstrate that one thing is / or not superior to another. Use following terms to express judgment and indicate the relative merits of two items. Important/trivial: useful/useless, original/trite, efficient/inefficient, effective/ineffective, successful/unsuccessful, deserving/undeserving, practical/impractical. Grammar in context: when u write evaluation arg, u make judgments and these judgments often call for comparative analysis, ex. Intro includes arg thesis statement: body includes supporting evidence n refutation of opposing arg, conclu includes a strong, convincing conclu statement that reinforces the position stated in the thesis. Intro thesis: body, evidence (3, refute opposing arg, conclu, conclu statement, thesis statement, single sentence that states ur pos. On an issue: arg essay must have an arg thesis, one that takes a firm stand, arg thesis must be debatable, must have at least 2 sides, stating a pos.